vRNI Notes – Moving a group of App VMs + Associated FW Rules from VMC to VMC A few months ago, my colleague Tom Zukowski demo’ed the vRealize Network Insight and HCX Fling to a group of internal employees and he mentioned there was an ability to also export the existing firewall rules associated with …
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HCX Reference Links
HCX is key to many use cases with VMware technology today. For me, I use it constantly with VMware Cloud on AWS to assist customers and partners with moving workloads up to the cloud. However, it is also a great service to use when you need to move workloads from one datacenter to another. Well, …
VMC – Moving from VPN to DX and reconfiguring HCX Service Mesh
Much of my job entails post sales support, design, re-design, deployment, and rearchitecting of the VMC solution so I have to answer many questions related to the growth and expansion of customer uses of VMC. Recently, a customer needed some guidance when it came to taking their use of VMware Cloud on AWS to the …
VMware Cloud on AWS Reference Links
It struck me that for those of you that are either exploring VMware Cloud on AWS (from here on out referred to as VMC) or currently using it, you may want a list of references for where to find information. Having done this for a few years now, I figured I could share my collection …
NSX-T 2.4 Study Guide & Support
*** Just the Study Guide, please! *** VMware has already said that NSX-T is our future. It is what underpins our VMware Cloud on AWS solution. As such, it was my targeted future to learn and obtain the VCP-NV based on NSX-T. In reality, this was on my radar since I joined VMware nearly 4 …
VMC SDDC to SDDC VPN
Why is configuring VPN from VMware Cloud on AWS to somewhere else(anywhere else!) so hard? I tried it on my own from an SDDC from Oregon, US to an SDDC in Sydney, Australia to practice and learn myself. Now, a few things. VMware’s recommendation is that you always use a Route Based VPN and leverage …
My Favorite Things….about HCX
I don’t post very often but when I do, it’s something I’m enthusiastic about. HCX is definitely one of those things I’ve been super excited about. I’m not going into the technical details today as you need to understand why you would even buy such a software before we talk about how to use it. …
It’s 2020, y’all!
Hello Folks! It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted anything. Ok, so it’s been like 6 months. I have half a dozen excuses prepared. The VMWorld’s took OVER my life and then I was traveling so much I got status on an airline. (Hint: It’s not as glamorous as everyone fantasizes about.) In reality, …
VMware Cloud on AWS – What is it?
**This page has been updated to reflect updated links July 1st, 2020.** There’s a lot of literature out there about VMC on AWS for sure. Much of it provided by VMware themselves. The community has come together and provided various posts and videos. However, most provide you only a tiny view into the service in …
Fixing these dratted Unknown vSAN Objects
Like a few folks out there, I’ve got my own personal home lab. I never really thought I would have one until my current job because in my previous jobs, I always had access to boatloads of equipment. Let me cut to the chase: I screwed my vSAN installation up M.A.N.Y. times and ended up …